Introduction South Africa is famous for gold, with paleoplacer deposits of the Witwatersrand Basin having produced a large fraction of […]
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When it comes to exploration geology, age matters! In this article, we’ll discuss how rocks are dated, why it matters,
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Introduction Since the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, there has been increasing pressure for the mining industry to reduce greenhouse gas
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Overview The Bushveld Complex (BC), located in northern South Africa, is a Paleoproterozoic Large Igneous Province ~2 Ga in age.
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Introduction The gold fields of the Witwatersrand Basin in South Africa are, by a landslide, the largest single gold producing
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For untold millennia the Orange River of South Africa has slowly flowed to the sea, untroubled by glaciers or volcanoes,
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Occasionally deposits are so big and so important we can apply the term – game changer. The Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN),
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New discoveries based on new approaches and ideas are the holy grail for geologists, but they can often be a
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Like gold, diamonds were originally recovered from alluvial deposits. However, unlike gold, the actual mining of diamonds from source deposits
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